The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander

The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

Caroline Alexander

missing page info Add in missing page information • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend but Homer s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies ...

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